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We have reached a new low when it comes to the Federal government’s overzealous attempts to fight crime. The FBI and police in Westerville, Ohio are going to try and enforce a ban on wearing a hood, hat, sunglasses or use of a cell phone inside local banks.
According to a quote attributed to the local police, would be bank robbers will be easy to spot since law abiding bank patrons won’t be wearing a hat or talking on a cell phone.
From the story:
The FBI said that the majority of bank robbers conceal their identity in several ways, by wearing hats, hoods, sunglasses or partially covering their face with a cell phone. The phones can also be a security risk because many are camera phones that could capture security camera images if someone were casing a bank.
The new policy will help the “would-be” bank robber be more noticeable to staff and customers if they do not comply with the policy, police said. Full Story »
Mankind pulled civilization out of the mud somewhere in the ancient past. In creating society, people agreed to a non-spoken compact that required everyone to look out for their neighbor. We aren’t talking about a communist society where the government dictates that everyone work for the collective good, but instead an agreement between honest law-abiding people that made it reprehensible to leave your neighbor to die.
The same holds true, or used to hold true, when it came to stopping common crime, whether violent crime against a person, or a property crime. As the American government grew in power and influence in a citizen’s life, it destroyed the agreement between honest people to care for each other.
Today in America many citizens won’t step in to protect the personal safety of their neighbors because, over the years, everyone was brainwashed by the government to give up freedom for security.
Without martial law, the government cannot, and will not act to make sure a citizen is safe from violent attack. All the government representatives can do is show up in time to make a report and try to catch the criminal. Full Story »
Barack Obama’s video message to Iran in March of 2009 is widely seen as an attempt to create a dialogue between the two countries. Meanwhile, on the domestic front, he has all but shut down one of the most successful law enforcement programs in the country by putting up insurmountable administrative roadblocks to allowing Federal Flight Deck Officers from continuing to carry guns in cockpits.
The program, which is widely successful, lets pilots carry guns to protect the passengers and control of the plane. It was created after 9/11 to combat the possibility of another hijacking that might turn fully loaded jetliners into guided missiles.
Basically, Obama is reaching out to our enemies in Iran while destroying one of the ways we can stop terrorists often sponsored by Iranian money and training.
How a sitting president of the United States can make such a ridiculous decision is inexplicable.
Basically, Obama is relegating the safety of not only airline passengers, but people in high profile locations like the Sears Tower in Chicago, to the backburner by taking away the one of the last lines of defense. It is the second step Obama’s administration has taken in destroying the rights of armed victims in America. Full Story »
As a victim of the recession and massive lay-offs that followed, I lost my job and was forced to fly to Chicago for a job fair this past weekend. It was my first trip to Chicago, my hometown, in quite some time, making me wonder how Chicagoland had prepared for the expected mayhem after the US Supreme Court ruled the 2nd Amendment is an individual right. The reaction of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to the Supreme Court ruling was astounding, he actually pouted and stomped his feet while discussing how a gun in a law-abiding person’s house is a threat to public safety.
Luckily, the pilot of my flight into Chicago was a long time veteran of Chicago’s O’Hare airport and used the customary cork-screw landing to confuse any gunmen looking to shoot the plane down. His landing was a carbon copy of the landing described by Hillary Clinton during her arrival in Bosnia safely all those years ago. Upon exiting the plane, passengers were rushed from the tarmac into armored vehicles and whisked to the relative safety of the terminal. As our new Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton is sure to use her the skills she learned dodging sniper fire in Bosnia to help portray herself as tough on foreign policy.
Based on Mayor Daley’s predictions after the US Supreme Court ruling, I fully expected that Chicago would be under virtual lockdown.
Most people in the gun movement were familiar with the famous Spartan 300 long before the recent movie again made their heroic deeds the stuff of legend. Other legitimate freedom fighters throughout history, however, aren’t as well known.
One person in history stands with the 300 as a key player in the fight for freedom long before the American Revolution turned the sacrifice of such heroes into reality.
That man was a brief part of the movie Braveheart, he was, Robert the Bruce. Do yourself a favor and pick up the book, Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, by Ronald McNair Scott, which is a biography of the Bruce. It’s a worthy read about how he fought for Scottish freedom against the British.
As we go into our fight against the anticipated tyranny of President-Elect Barack Obama’s administration we need to consider the Bruce’s words, spoken to his men prior to the battle of Bannockburn, a battle they were likely to lose as it was against one of the greatest military powers of the time.
Most Americans transfixed by Black Friday sales at the local discount megamart completely ignored the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. Sadly, it’s learning from such tragedies that might save your life someday.
For those not familiar with the story, terrorists fighting for an independent Kashmir stormed several high profile hotels and other locations in Mumbai, resulting in at least 200 deaths as of this writing. Like the bombings that took place around the world prior to 9/11, Americans see the carnage in Mumbai as largely another issue they can ignore. As they see it, attacks similar to what happen in places like India don’t happen here.
It’s amazing that post-9/11 that people have their head buried so deeply in the sand, or should we say they are so deeply buried in the American societal ways, that getting a deal on a plasma TV is more important than taking a few minutes to learn the possible tactics of our next attackers.
The tactics used by the terrorist in India are similar to those found in Al Qaeda manuals in Iraq – hillingly among the documents found during intelligence sweeps included plans for America’s schools.
Al Qaeda learned from their mistakes in planning and carrying out the 9/11 attacks, and there is no doubt they might regret the attack. After all, since they chose to punch us in the face their fortunes have turned a little sour. Osama bin Laden can’t stick his head up out of a cave somewhere in Pakistan and his terror network is in shambles. America faces other security risks yet nearly 8 years later, there hasn’t been another large scale attack.
So, as believers in the civil right to bear arms, where do we go from here now that the most anti-gun president in history takes office in January?
For us, nothing changes, we simply attack this problem as aggressively as we attacked the Clinton administration and the Republicans who turned their back on us and voted for the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban. We stand up and force the elected officials to consider the danger to their future electoral viability if they try to take our guns.
Our job is to remind them of the Democrats bounced from office after the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban passed. We need to remind them of Al Gore losing his home state of Tennessee due to his willingess to take our guns, and we need to remind them that John Kerry lost in 2004 largely because of his stance on gun rights.
President Elect Obama did a great job of convincing people who haven’t been paying attention that he isn’t anti-gun. Well, those of us in the movement know better. But, his duplicitious campaign does us a lot of good going forward. If Obama comes for out guns, all the pro-gun voters who were tricked and voted for him will return to our cause. They are likely to feel burned by his glad-handing ways. Full Story »
Of all the social issues facing America today few expose a person’s political ideology more definitively than whether someone is anti-gun. That makes Barack Obama’s attempt to fool gun owners by painting himself as a defender of the 2nd Amendment easy to see for what it is – someone trying to lie their way to the presidency.
His claim that he won’t work to destroy the right to bear arms also falls flat not only because of his past record but on ideological grounds as well. Obama will work to destroy gun rights because his leftist socialist agenda compels him to destroy anything that gives an individual power at the expense of the government.
Being a pro-abortion, tax and spend liberal is in Obama’s soul, it defines him as a person and is reflected in all of his policies.
There is also no difference between advocating gun control and advocating third trimester abortions, or abortions for minors without parental consent. They are all part of the same disgusting predisposition to devalue life. That means he doesn’t value life enough to believe in the right to self defense through the use of a gun, and allows him to think an individual life is subservient to the power of the state.
DetNews.com is reporting that yet another study shows the availability of guns does not lead to more homicides. From the story:
Gun shows don’t contribute to increased homicide or suicide rates, according to results of a study announced Wednesday by the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
The joint University of Michigan and University of Maryland examination of gun death data in the weeks surrounding more than 3,400 California and Texas gun shows concluded tighter regulation of the flea market-like operations did nothing to reduce firearms-related deaths in the following month.
The study compared homicides in Texas and California to see of the Sunshine State’s oppressive gun laws saved lives. More from the story:
As we inch towards another anniversary of the September 11 attacks and the cowardly attack on Beslan School Number 1 in Russia, we have to wonder what the world has learned in the intervening years. In America, partisan bickering continues over the future in Iraq, and in Russia borders skirmishes continue over disputed provinces of the Republic of Georgia.
Hollywood has deemed enough time has passed since the attacks on the Twin Towers to start making movies about the tragedy. As usual, the Hollywood elite condemn America for actions they believe caused the attack, and then exploit the situation to make their money.
The question remains, however, about whether the world is any safer today than it was then. Make your own judgment on whether America as a whole is safer since that answer is beyond the reach of most of us.
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